In the quiet coastal town of Harbor Town, Maine, forty-two-year-old journalist Sam Whitaker returns after twenty-five years to write the official history for the town’s bicentennial. Divorced and disillusioned, he expects a simple assignment. Instead, he finds old friends, tall tales, a stubborn pink-paint war at town meetings, lighthouse climbs, bonfires that burn away old hurts, and Lily Harper—the girl who once broke his heart without knowing it. Through parades, trivia nights, and shared silences, Sam rediscovers what home really means: not perfection, but the messy, salty, stubbornly alive stories people keep telling together.
